13881. Cit. Once if he do require our voyces, wee ought

1389not to deny him.

13902. Cit. We may Sir if we will.

13913. Cit. We haue power in our selues to do it, but it is

1392a power that we haue no power to do: For, if hee shew vs

1393his wounds, and tell vs his deeds, we are to put our ton-

1394gues into those wounds, and speake for them: So if he tel

1395vs his Noble deeds, we must also tell him our Noble ac-

1396ceptance of them. Ingratitude is monstrous, and for the

1397multitude to be ingratefull, were to make a Monster of

1398the multitude; of the which, we being members, should

1399bring our selues to be monstrous members.

14001. Cit. And to make vs no better thought of a little

1401helpe will serue: for once we stood vp about the Corne,

1402he himselfe stucke not to call vs the many-headed Multi-

1403tude.

14043. Cit. We haue beene call'd so of many, not that our

1405heads are some browne, some blacke, some Abram, some

1406bald; but that our wits are so diuersly Coulord; and true-

1407ly I thinke, if all our wittes were to issue out of one Scull,

1408they would flye East, West, North, South, and their con-

1409sent of one direct way, should be at once to all the points

1410a'th Compasse.

14112. Cit. Thinke you so? Which way do you iudge my

1412wit would flye.

14133. Cit. Nay your wit will not so soone out as another

1414mans will, 'tis strongly wadg'd vp in a blocke-head: but

1415if it were at liberty, 'twould sure Southward.

14162 Cit. Why that way?

14173 Cit. To loose it selfe in a Fogge, where being three

1418parts melted away with rotten Dewes, the fourth would

1419returne for Conscience sake, to helpe to get thee a Wife.

14202 Cit. You are neuer without your trickes, you may,

1421you may.

14223 Cit. Are you all resolu'd to giue your voyces? But

1423that's no matter, the greater part carries it, I say. If hee

1424would incline to the people, there was neuer a worthier

1425man.

1428Heere he comes, and in the Gowne of humility, marke

1429his behauiour: we are not to stay altogether, but to come

1430by him where he stands, by ones, by twoes, & by threes.

1431He's to make his requests by particulars, wherein euerie

1432one of vs ha's a single Honor, in giuing him our own voi-

1433ces with our owne tongues, therefore follow me, and Ile

1434direct you how you shall go by him.

1435All. Content, content.

1436Men. Oh Sir, you are not right: haue you not knowne

1437The worthiest men haue done't?

1438Corio. What must I say, I pray Sir?

1439Plague vpon't, I cannot bring

1440My tongue to such a pace. Looke Sir, my wounds,

1441I got them in my Countries Seruice, when

1442Some certaine of your Brethren roar'd, and ranne

1443From th' noise of our owne Drummes.

1444Menen. Oh me the Gods, you must not speak of that,

1445You must desire them to thinke vpon you.

1446Coriol. Thinke vpon me? Hang 'em,

1447I would they would forget me, like the Vertues

1448Which our Diuines lose by em.

1449Men. You'l marre all,

1450Ile leaue you: Pray you speake to em, I pray you

1451In wholsome manner. Exit

1453Corio. Bid them wash their Faces,

1454And keepe their teeth cleane: So, heere comes a brace,

1455You know the cause (Sir) of my standing heere.

14563 Cit. We do Sir, tell vs what hath brought you too't.

1457Corio. Mine owne desert.

14582 Cit. Your owne desert.

1459Corio. I, but mine owne desire.

14603 Cit. How not your owne desire?

1461Corio. No Sir, 'twas neuer my desire yet to trouble the

1462poore with begging.

14633 Cit. You must thinke if we giue you any thing, we

1464hope to gaine by you.

1465Corio. Well then I pray, your price a'th' Consulship.

14661 Cit. The price is, to aske it kindly.

1467Corio. Kindly sir, I pray let me ha't: I haue wounds to

1468shew you, which shall bee yours in priuate: your good

1469voice Sir, what say you?

14702 Cit. You shall ha't worthy Sir.

1471Corio. A match Sir, there's in all two worthie voyces

1472begg'd: I haue your Almes, Adieu.

14733 Cit. But this is something odde.

14742 Cit. And 'twere to giue againe: but 'tis no matter.

1476Coriol. Pray you now, if it may stand with the tune

1477of your voices, that I may bee Consull, I haue heere the

1478Customarie Gowne.

14791. You haue deserued Nobly of your Countrey, and

1480you haue not deserued Nobly.

1481Coriol. Your AEnigma.

14821. You haue bin a scourge to her enemies, you haue

1483bin a Rod to her Friends, you haue not indeede loued the

1484Common people.

1485Coriol. You should account mee the more Vertuous,

1486that I haue not bin common in my Loue, I will sir flatter

1487my sworne Brother the people to earne a deerer estima-

1488tion of them, 'tis a condition they account gentle: & since

1489the wisedome of their choice, is rather to haue my Hat,

1490then my Heart, I will practice the insinuating nod, and be

1491off to them most counterfetly, that is sir, I will counter-

1492fet the bewitchment of some popular man, and giue it

1493bountifull to the desirers: Therefore beseech you, I may

1494be Consull.

14952. Wee hope to finde you our friend: and therefore

1496giue you our voices heartily.

14971. You haue receyued many wounds for your Coun-

1498trey.

1499Coriol. I wil not Seale your knowledge with shewing

1500them. I will make much of your voyces, and so trouble

1501you no farther.

1502Both. The Gods giue you ioy Sir heartily.

1503Coriol. Most sweet Voyces:

1504Better it is to dye, better to sterue,

1505Then craue the higher, which first we do deserue.

1506Why in this Wooluish tongue should I stand heere,

1507To begge of Hob and Dicke, that does appeere

1508Their needlesse Vouches: Custome calls me too't.

1509What Custome wills in all things, should we doo't?

1510The Dust on antique Time would lye vnswept,

1511And mountainous Error be too highly heapt,

1512For Truth to o're-peere. Rather then foole it so,

1513Let the high Office and the Honor go

1514To one that would doe thus. I am halfe through,

1515The one part suffered, the other will I doe.

1517Here come moe Voyces.

1518Your Voyces? for your Voyces I haue fought,

1519Watcht for your Voyces: for your Voyces, beare

1520Of Wounds, two dozen odde: Battailes thrice six

1521I haue seene, and heard of: for your Voyces,

1522Haue done many things, some lesse, some more:

1523Your Voyces? Indeed I would be Consull.

15241. Cit. Hee ha's done Nobly, and cannot goe without

1525any honest mans Voyce.

15262. Cit. Therefore let him be Consull: the Gods giue him

1527ioy, and make him good friend to the People.

1528All. Amen, Amen. God saue thee, Noble Consull.

1529Corio. Worthy Voyces.

1531Mene. You haue stood your Limitation:

1532And the Tribunes endue you with the Peoples Voyce,

1533Remaines, that in th' Officiall Markes inuested,

1534You anon doe meet the Senate.

1535Corio. Is this done?

1536Scicin. The Custome of Request you haue discharg'd:

1537The People doe admit you, and are summon'd

1538To meet anon, vpon your approbation.

1539Corio. Where? at the Senate-house?

1540Scicin. There, Coriolanus.

1541Corio. May I change these Garments?

1542Scicin. You may, Sir.

1543Cori. That Ile straight do: and knowing my selfe again,

1544Repayre to th'Senate-

1545house. Mene. Ile keepe you company. Will you along?

1546Brut. We stay here for the People.

1547Scicin. Fare you well. Exeunt Coriol. and Mene.

1548He ha's it now: and by his Lookes, me thinkes,

1549'Tis warme at's heart.

1550Brut. With a prowd heart he wore his humble Weeds:

1551Will you dismisse the People?

1553Scici. How now, my Masters, haue you chose this man?

15541. Cit. He ha's our Voyces, Sir.

1555Brut. We pray the Gods, he may deserue your loues.

15562. Cit. Amen, Sir: to my poore vnworthy notice,

1557He mock'd vs, when he begg'd our Voyces.

15583. Cit. Certainely, he flowted vs downe-right.

15591. Cit. No, 'tis his kind of speech, he did not mock vs.

15602. Cit. Not one amongst vs, saue your selfe, but sayes

1561He vs'd vs scornefully: he should haue shew'd vs

1562His Marks of Merit, Wounds receiu'd for's Countrey.

1563Scicin. Why so he did, I am sure.

1564All. No, no: no man saw 'em.

15653. Cit. Hee said hee had Wounds,

1566Which he could shew in priuate:

1567And with his Hat, thus wauing it in scorne,

1568I would be Consull, sayes he: aged Custome,

1569But by your Voyces, will not so permit me.

1570Your Voyces therefore: when we graunted that,

1571Here was, I thanke you for your Voyces, thanke you

1572Your most sweet Voyces: now you haue left your Voyces,

1573I haue no further with you. Was not this mockerie?

1574Scicin. Why eyther were you ignorant to see't?

1575Or seeing it, of such Childish friendlinesse,

1576To yeeld your Voyces?

1577Brut. Could you not haue told him,

1578As you were lesson'd: When he had no Power,

1579But was a pettie seruant to the State,

1580He was your Enemie, euer spake against

1581Your Liberties, and the Charters that you beare

1582I'th' Body of the Weale: and now arriuing

1583A place of Potencie, and sway o'th' State,

1584If he should still malignantly remaine

1585Fast Foe to th'Plebeij, your Voyces might

1586Be Curses to your selues. You should haue said,

1587That as his worthy deeds did clayme no lesse

1588Then what he stood for: so his gracious nature

1589Would thinke vpon you, for your Voyces,

1590And translate his Mallice towards you, into Loue,

1591Standing your friendly Lord.

1592Scicin. Thus to haue said,

1593As you were fore-aduis'd, had toucht his Spirit,

1594And try'd his Inclination: from him pluckt

1595Eyther his gracious Promise, which you might

1596As cause had call'd you vp, haue held him to;

1597Or else it would haue gall'd his surly nature,

1598Which easily endures not Article,

1599Tying him to ought, so putting him to Rage,

1600You should haue ta'ne th' aduantage of his Choller,

1601And pass'd him vnelected.

1602Brut. Did you perceiue,

1603He did sollicite you in free Contempt,

1604When he did need your Loues: and doe you thinke,

1605That his Contempt shall not be brusing to you,

1606When he hath power to crush? Why, had your Bodyes

1607No Heart among you? Or had you Tongues, to cry

1608Against the Rectorship of Iudgement?

1609Scicin. Haue you, ere now, deny'd the asker:

1610And now againe, of him that did not aske, but mock,

1611Bestow your su'd-for Tongues?

16123. Cit. Hee's not confirm'd, we may deny him yet.

16132. Cit. And will deny him:

1614Ile haue fiue hundred Voyces of that sound.

16151. Cit. I twice fiue hundred, & their friends, to piece 'em.

1616Brut. Get you hence instantly, and tell those friends,

1617They haue chose a Consull, that will from them take

1618Their Liberties, make them of no more Voyce

1619Then Dogges, that are as often beat for barking,

1620As therefore kept to doe so.

1621Scici. Let them assemble: and on a safer Iudgement,

1622All reuoke your ignorant election: Enforce his Pride,

1623And his old Hate vnto you: besides, forget not

1624With what Contempt he wore the humble Weed,

1625How in his Suit he scorn'd you: but your Loues,

1626Thinking vpon his Seruices, tooke from you

1627Th' apprehension of his present portance,

1628Which most gibingly, vngrauely, he did fashion

1629After the inueterate Hate he beares you.

1630Brut. Lay a fault on vs, your Tribunes,

1631That we labour'd (no impediment betweene)

1632But that you must cast your Election on him.

1633Scici. Say you chose him, more after our commandment,

1634Then as guided by your owne true affections, and that

1635Your Minds pre-occupy'd with what you rather must do,

1636Then what you should, made you against the graine

1637To Voyce him Consull. Lay the fault on vs.

bb Brut. I,

1638Brut. I, spare vs not: Say, we read Lectures to you,

1639How youngly he began to serue his Countrey,

1640How long continued, and what stock he springs of,

1641The Noble House o'th' Martians: from whence came

1642That Ancus Martius, Numaes Daughters Sonne:

1643Who after great Hostilius here was King,

1644Of the same House Publius and Quintus were,

1645That our best Water, brought by Conduits hither,

1646And Nobly nam'd, so twice being Censor,

1647Was his great Ancestor.

1648Scicin. One thus descended,

1649That hath beside well in his person wrought,

1650To be set high in place, we did commend

1651To your remembrances: but you haue found,

1652Skaling his present bearing with his past,

1653That hee's your fixed enemie; and reuoke

1654Your suddaine approbation.

1655Brut. Say you ne're had don't,

1656(Harpe on that still) but by our putting on:

1657And presently, when you haue drawne your number,

1658Repaire to th'Capitoll.

1659All. We will so: almost all repent in their election.

1661Brut. Let them goe on:

1662This Mutinie were better put in hazard,

1663Then stay past doubt, for greater:

1664If, as his nature is, he fall in rage

1665With their refusall, both obserue and answer

1666The vantage of his anger.

1667Scicin. To th'Capitoll, come:

1668We will be there before the streame o'th' People:

1669And this shall seeme, as partly 'tis, their owne,

1670Which we haue goaded on-ward. Exeunt.